A schoolmaster is blown out of the world by a mysterious powder and returns nine days later with his body reversed, left to right. Around his tale Wells sets other early stories: a bathysphere descent to a city on the ocean floor, an old man who steals a young one’s body, an attack by giant cephalopods on the Devon coast, and a curse laid by a West African sorcerer.
A collection from Wells’s most inventive years of short fiction, some of it carrying the imperial attitudes of 1897. Download the free EPUB.